They don't do comprehensive motherboard or processor reviews like other sites. You're not going to find a table with 15 different combinations of hardware compared. Usually it's just one product.
Why would IBM do this? They would be a company that would use this, not necessarily develop the tools to use it.
IIRC, a 45 degree angle creates a slight bottleneck, increasing the resistance at the joint. However, the algorithm uses oblique wires for long routing, not lots of sharp turns (there aren't many of those, mainly between layers, and this won't affect vias).
If you decided to read the article, you might have noticed that the example processes used 5 layers of metal. The first 3 were primarily orthogonal, so they would remain compatible with existing designs. The top two layers could be used for the diagonal interconnects.
The breakthrough here isn't the physical ability to route diagonally, it's the algorithms used to handle routing diagonally (not an easy task).
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But the problem is, Ford didn't even send them a letter telling them to stop. The first they heard of the problem, they were issued a subpoena!
Watermarking is pretty cool, I especially like the idea of an acrostic. The watermarking could be taken to an extreme by using an encrypted acrostic or something like that. Finding it would be very difficult to detect (mine shouldn't be, though).
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Paintings are usually somewhat stylized by the painter. Photos, on the other hand, are near exact replicas of what is seen through a camera. They convey different types of information.
I believe that when magnets are initially created, they are polarized with whatever magnetic field is currently the strongest nearby - this is usually the Earth's magnetic field. After that, if the magnet were to move around, its magnetic field would move around with it, not change to match the Earth. Compasses, on the other hand, have really weak magnets on a pin. Their north and south poles are attracted to the south and north poles of the strongest magnet around (usually the earth), and it moves around on the pin because it's easy to (not much friction or other forces holding it in place). If another magnet were near a compass, the compass would point towards that.
Apologies if I'm answering stupid questions, but I'm procrastinating.
I still see people getting a kick out of that game! My roomate was so stoked when his sister gave him a copy of Liesure Suit Larry (dunno which version). Somehow, trying to get some lame computer character laid is a gratifying, fun and relaxing experience. Don't ask me why or how; it just is. Maybe it's such a popular game because it allows all those people whose social skills have decreased due to huge amounts of computer time actually meet hot chicks and get laid. But we probably can't admit that, can we, those of little life...
(And come on, MIT students: You may claim that you went there for the academics, but we all know that you all secretly want to be the Val Kilmer character from Real Genius.)
Why would anyone who goes to MIT want to be anything like the characters in Real Genius? That was filmed at Caltech, the other Geek Institute. It is a a very different place (but with a very similar attitude toward cool hacks, and Caltech's may be better...;-) ). I've heard stories about their Interhouse parties, and the engineering feats to pull some of those off are pretty impressive.
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Yeah, but most people won't worry/know about it, and they won't be out picking individual hard drives - they'll be buying from an OEM (Dell, Gateway, Compaq, etc). Thus, these corporations will be the ones voting with their wallet, not the individual consumer.
I don't think the consumers will make any difference in this, unless the Slashdot population is a sizable portion of the storage device purchasing demographic (Not very likely).
Of course it would be ludicrous for Valenti to try and have fair use protection thrown out for this reason.
What does fair use have to do with this? This is just another way of expressing the details of a circumvention device's source code in a non-compilable (and somewhat artistic) form. I think you mean free speech, not fair use, which Valenti and the MPAA are desparately trying to rid America of under the guise of protecting their own speech (copyright), which really just makes them tons more money...
No, problem solving is probably the biggest part of the equation. Sure, anyone can think up a brute force solution and code it up. It works, right? But if there is thought put into the algorithms, processors won't be bogged down, memory won't be taxed, everyone will be happy. I'm taking an algorithms class right now, and I'm surprised at how many problems can be solved simply, but even more surprised at how a nonintuitive (or more intuitive, depending on how you think) algorithm can produce a much more efficient solution. In other words, solving a problem is usually trivial. Solving a problem efficiently is a whole new problem altogether, and sometimes a more important one.
If you read his post, you would have noticed he said 4+ years, totalling $100,000+. This is not an unreasonable number, if you consider possible out-of-state fees (8-10K or more), private school tuition (at least 15K), room and board (about 5K+ those are usually included in the cost). 100K doesn't seem so small now, does it...
How do we teach our computers ways to handle SEX (check the jargon file, sillies) by themselves? Back in the days of floppies, we had condoms, but with everyone connnected to the internet, it like a freaking orgy! Napster and Gnutella are like brothels full of whores ready to share all their software. And what's with all this ftp, nfs, and remote administration stuff? I need to keep all those nasty viruses away from my horny computer, and now I have to worry about my innocent little box running around trying to get dates and have SEX with other boxes it has never met before!
I use SecureCRT. It's not free (as in beer or speech), but I like it a lot. I haven't tried putty, but I think I will (this is the first I've heard of it).
...but if you really need to know exactly how many RPM's your CPU fans are pushing, you need a life.
Actually, if fans drop below a certain rpm, they become useless. They're still moving, but at a crappy rate. If you have a sensor that can measure the speed of your fan, then the motherboard can determine if it is a safe speed, and take appropriate actions. For example, my Abit KT7-RAID has a sensor on the CPU fan, and I can set a flag in the BIOS that will send an alarm out and shut off the computer if the fan drops below 200 rpm. That's a pretty useful feature, as I don't want my Athlon to fry...
That's a pretty good idea. There is a programming environment kind of like this on the Mac platform that is used mainly for audio programming, called Max. You plop down some boxes, set some values, add user-interfaces, and wire it all up with patch cords (pipes). There are Win32 (Pd) and Linux (Pd or jMax).
Ahh, but the emacs people have the same taste - there is the exact same shirt with emacs and vi switched, if you click on the "emacs users' version" link.
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Why would they sell harware they use daily?
They don't do comprehensive motherboard or processor reviews like other sites. You're not going to find a table with 15 different combinations of hardware compared. Usually it's just one product.
You'd think michael and Taco talked every once in a while - less than 24 hours between duping this one.
Probably twice the big number per license (but I'm not sure).
Why would IBM do this? They would be a company that would use this, not necessarily develop the tools to use it.
IIRC, a 45 degree angle creates a slight bottleneck, increasing the resistance at the joint. However, the algorithm uses oblique wires for long routing, not lots of sharp turns (there aren't many of those, mainly between layers, and this won't affect vias).
If you decided to read the article, you might have noticed that the example processes used 5 layers of metal. The first 3 were primarily orthogonal, so they would remain compatible with existing designs. The top two layers could be used for the diagonal interconnects.
The breakthrough here isn't the physical ability to route diagonally, it's the algorithms used to handle routing diagonally (not an easy task).
But the problem is, Ford didn't even send them a letter telling them to stop. The first they heard of the problem, they were issued a subpoena!
Watermarking is pretty cool, I especially like the idea of an acrostic. The watermarking could be taken to an extreme by using an encrypted acrostic or something like that. Finding it would be very difficult to detect (mine shouldn't be, though). Matt
Paintings are usually somewhat stylized by the painter. Photos, on the other hand, are near exact replicas of what is seen through a camera. They convey different types of information.
I believe that when magnets are initially created, they are polarized with whatever magnetic field is currently the strongest nearby - this is usually the Earth's magnetic field. After that, if the magnet were to move around, its magnetic field would move around with it, not change to match the Earth. Compasses, on the other hand, have really weak magnets on a pin. Their north and south poles are attracted to the south and north poles of the strongest magnet around (usually the earth), and it moves around on the pin because it's easy to (not much friction or other forces holding it in place). If another magnet were near a compass, the compass would point towards that.
Apologies if I'm answering stupid questions, but I'm procrastinating.
I still see people getting a kick out of that game! My roomate was so stoked when his sister gave him a copy of Liesure Suit Larry (dunno which version). Somehow, trying to get some lame computer character laid is a gratifying, fun and relaxing experience. Don't ask me why or how; it just is. Maybe it's such a popular game because it allows all those people whose social skills have decreased due to huge amounts of computer time actually meet hot chicks and get laid. But we probably can't admit that, can we, those of little life...
1)I remember seeing the pictures of developers from the firmware back on my old Mac SE.
2)Excel just has a little first-person maze thing that has the names of all the developers in a difficult to reach room.
3)Breakout from the Mac About box is pretty fun. I haven't seen any other Breakouts or Pong... Although that would be pretty neat.
(And come on, MIT students: You may claim that you went there for the academics, but we all know that you all secretly want to be the Val Kilmer character from Real Genius.)
;-) ). I've heard stories about their Interhouse parties, and the engineering feats to pull some of those off are pretty impressive.
Why would anyone who goes to MIT want to be anything like the characters in Real Genius? That was filmed at Caltech, the other Geek Institute. It is a a very different place (but with a very similar attitude toward cool hacks, and Caltech's may be better...
Yeah, but most people won't worry/know about it, and they won't be out picking individual hard drives - they'll be buying from an OEM (Dell, Gateway, Compaq, etc). Thus, these corporations will be the ones voting with their wallet, not the individual consumer.
I don't think the consumers will make any difference in this, unless the Slashdot population is a sizable portion of the storage device purchasing demographic (Not very likely).
actually there was a section where one of the admins went to bed with some hardware... nekkid!!!
Of course it would be ludicrous for Valenti to try and have fair use protection thrown out for this reason.
What does fair use have to do with this? This is just another way of expressing the details of a circumvention device's source code in a non-compilable (and somewhat artistic) form. I think you mean free speech, not fair use, which Valenti and the MPAA are desparately trying to rid America of under the guise of protecting their own speech (copyright), which really just makes them tons more money...
Ahh, but it's about the nature of DeCSS. Therefore, since it is about nature, it qualifies (at least a little bit) as a haiku...
I know... a stretch, but it works!
No, problem solving is probably the biggest part of the equation. Sure, anyone can think up a brute force solution and code it up. It works, right? But if there is thought put into the algorithms, processors won't be bogged down, memory won't be taxed, everyone will be happy. I'm taking an algorithms class right now, and I'm surprised at how many problems can be solved simply, but even more surprised at how a nonintuitive (or more intuitive, depending on how you think) algorithm can produce a much more efficient solution. In other words, solving a problem is usually trivial. Solving a problem efficiently is a whole new problem altogether, and sometimes a more important one.
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If you read his post, you would have noticed he said 4+ years, totalling $100,000+. This is not an unreasonable number, if you consider possible out-of-state fees (8-10K or more), private school tuition (at least 15K), room and board (about 5K+ those are usually included in the cost). 100K doesn't seem so small now, does it...
How do we teach our computers ways to handle SEX (check the jargon file, sillies) by themselves? Back in the days of floppies, we had condoms, but with everyone connnected to the internet, it like a freaking orgy! Napster and Gnutella are like brothels full of whores ready to share all their software. And what's with all this ftp, nfs, and remote administration stuff? I need to keep all those nasty viruses away from my horny computer, and now I have to worry about my innocent little box running around trying to get dates and have SEX with other boxes it has never met before!
SEX, SEX, SEX, that's all they ever think about.
I use SecureCRT. It's not free (as in beer or speech), but I like it a lot. I haven't tried putty, but I think I will (this is the first I've heard of it).
...but if you really need to know exactly how many RPM's your CPU fans are pushing, you need a life.
Actually, if fans drop below a certain rpm, they become useless. They're still moving, but at a crappy rate. If you have a sensor that can measure the speed of your fan, then the motherboard can determine if it is a safe speed, and take appropriate actions. For example, my Abit KT7-RAID has a sensor on the CPU fan, and I can set a flag in the BIOS that will send an alarm out and shut off the computer if the fan drops below 200 rpm. That's a pretty useful feature, as I don't want my Athlon to fry...
btw - i do have a life (last time I checked).
That's a pretty good idea. There is a programming environment kind of like this on the Mac platform that is used mainly for audio programming, called Max. You plop down some boxes, set some values, add user-interfaces, and wire it all up with patch cords (pipes). There are Win32 (Pd) and Linux (Pd or jMax).
Perhaps these can be extended to unix commands.
Ahh, but the emacs people have the same taste - there is the exact same shirt with emacs and vi switched, if you click on the "emacs users' version" link.
hmmm... when did that go in effect in CA? I never had to do that...